Tax scammer averts time at ‘barbaric’ MDC Brooklyn jail after judge threatens to vacate sentence

The federal prison system won’t send an elderly tax scammer to the notorious MDC Brooklyn jail after Judge Gary Brown threatened to vacate the man’s sentence if he’s forced to endure the “dangerous, barbaric conditions” there. The federal Bureau of Prisons has agreed it won’t make 75-year-old Daniel Colucci serve out his nine months at the Sunset Park lockup, which has been plagued for years by gross under-staffing, medical mistreatment, atrocious conditions and violence. “Based upon information provided to the government, the defendant will not be designated to the MDC...